Being a Commercial/ Hard money lender has proven to have had its share of difficult times. Like many people one of my biggest objections has been educating clients on what is acceptable in hard money.  Yes hard money ...

Hi all, I am just starting my real estate investment journey with my husband and a friend of ours. The 3 of us are contributing equally to our first investment and are in the process of setting up our business LLC. My...

Has anyone used 3D floor plans for showing their units? I was wondering because I've seen a few listings around Chicago that have these really helpful 3D Floor Plan Renderings (see image below). Since you only have to...

Some time ago, there was a post asking for opinions on eXp Realty.  I shared in not-so-gentle terms how I had been pitched HARD by one of their agents.  That pitch was completely focused on how I could make future inc...

We have multiple single family long term rental properties in our portfolio (being self managed) and are looking to add/diversify. We have about a million budget and are trying to decide between getting a tri or quadp...

Hello BP members,

Quick background: I'm a 23-year-old with accounting consulting roots, and I'd like to explore entering the commercial real estate space.

A penny for your thoughts on a couple questions:...

Pomona recently implemented emergency rent control. The Annual Allowable Rent Increase effective August 1, 2024 - July 31, 2025 is based on the lesser of 4% or the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the Los ...

So I have been analyzing some properties for potential fix & flip.  I am very new to this, and I'm getting stuck on trying to estimate the rehab costs.I live in Australia (investing in Chicago area), so it's not p...

After a couple of succesful flips in my own name, my business partner and I are starting an LLC and making a go full-time. We're looking for some company name suggestions. We're based out of the Charleston area, but...

If you hang around the real estate investing community for any amount of time, you are going to hear a lot about investing through syndications. For those of us that have been doing this for any amount of time, this ...